{"id":490,"date":"2024-10-22T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/no-complacency-all-hands-on-deck\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T06:06:05","slug":"no-complacency-all-hands-on-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/no-complacency-all-hands-on-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"No Complacency! All Hands on Deck!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republic hangs by a thread. We must defeat the Kamalists* and do so decisively.  They need not just defeat but demoralization. Unfortunately, too many 'influencers' are predicting a Trump victory.  Not wise.  We must not wax complacent. Our political enemies will do anything to win. No moral or legal considerations constrain them. We know a priori<\/em> (in Kant's relative sense of the term) that they will cheat their posteriors  off — get the pun? –and then lie their heads off about their cheating. Why shouldn't they lie and cheat? We let them get away with it. Like Bret Baier, we conservatives are hobbled by our virtues, our civility for example. <\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Kimball the other day, and now Piers Morgan<\/a> may be doing more harm than good. <\/span><\/p>\n

Morgan:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cEven if you flippin\u2019 fries at McDonald\u2019s,\u201d Oprah Winfrey once said, \u201cif you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought of this quote when Donald Trump turned up yesterday at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant<\/a> in suburban Philadelphia to work a shift making French fries, then handing bags of food to drive-through customers.<\/span><\/p>\n

As political stunts go, this might have been the best I\u2019ve ever seen, because it served two very powerful purposes in the presidential race.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, it reminded voters that his rival, Kamala Harris, has repeatedly boasted about having a summer job at McDonald\u2019s to make her sound more relatable to her fellow Americans, but to date, not a single person has been able to verify this.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is quite extraordinary given how specific she has been, with her campaign team stating that she worked at McDonald\u2019s on Central Avenue in Alameda, Calif., in 1983 after her freshman year at Howard University, working on the cash register, french fries station and ice cream machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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*My astute readers of course know not to confuse Kamalism (a coinage I borrow from Thomas Klingenstein) and Kemalism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republic hangs by a thread. We must defeat the Kamalists* and do so decisively.  They need not just defeat but demoralization. Unfortunately, too many 'influencers' are predicting a Trump victory.  Not wise.  We must not wax complacent. Our political enemies will do anything to win. No moral or legal considerations constrain them. We know … Continue reading “No Complacency! All Hands on Deck!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-psychology","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}